klwood911 - Slashdot User

Submission + - Tell me about a few good movies/books/websites!

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klwood911

on Saturday August 08, 2009 @12:37PM

klwood911 writes: "Many times I have read a Slashdot story or a reply to a slashdot story and found references to various things (movies/websites/books) and I am finding that I am hunting down the references to find out more about them. Goatse (ewww!), Cats Cradle (Great Book) and my most recent exploration, Donnie Darko (Interesting Movie!) I have a few backlogged (Dark Star, Westworld & Soylent Green), but I am afraid I am going to run out. I'm big into the sci-fi, thriller, science and technology type things, but anything that has an interesting premise is up for grabs. Obscure movies that really aren't mainstream are great suggestions too as I am finding movies that I haven't even heard of being very interesting. What I would like to ask slashdot is, if you were to suggested a Movie, website or book (or anything else for that matter) that is of interest to a slashdotter, what would you suggest? Winter is coming and I want to stock up. Thanks for the help."

Comment College Anyone? (Score 1) 1127

by klwood911 on Monday April 13, 2009 @02:04PM (#27559731) Attached to: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

Try coding in a language that MIT designed (LISP) that no one uses outside the classroom, with a bunch of college guys, up all night, no showers, in a computer lab, on monochrome serial terminals, when you are a commuter and home is better than half an hour away. AND, you have to work full time an hour away the next day. AND your attractive live in girlfriend is waiting breathlessly for you at home.... Torture that even Gitmo couldn't beat...

Comment Need bigger Laser here in NH (Score 1) 354

by klwood911 on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:48PM (#27214533) Attached to: New Laser System Targets Mosquitoes

Remember the movie Real Genius? We in NH, would need something that size to unload our Mosquitos. They get big enough up here to carry you off.

Comment I'm not sure what to think of this...... (Score 1) 163

by klwood911 on Saturday December 01, 2007 @10:18AM (#21543689) Attached to: On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction

All these thoughts come to mind:

1. What did they charge the GOVERNMENT to do this?
2. Should I be upset that this guy needed to use my tax money to hire an outside company to do something when my tax money goes for a goverment IT person making $100K+ that could do it or that the person could have used the theoretical $700 hammer to get the job done?
3. Did Geeks on Call have licensed software to do the job? (OK aBB reference)
4. Did Geeks on Call backup the data to a portable drive to take back to the office (Yes I know this was BB, but who else does this?)

So many questions and no answers. I'm sure I could think of more.

Submission + - SunRocket Dumps its Customers!

Submitted by klwood911 on Friday July 20, 2007 @08:26AM

klwood911 writes: As quoted from Sunrockets homepage "After significant effort by the Company to avoid this result, SunRocket is in the process of discontinuing its operations as you know it. Therefore SunRocket will no longer be able to provide its customers with the phone service that its customers have been accustomed to." At this point, it would be good for customers to contact their credit card companies and file a dispute. Sunrocket refered customers to new providers, but they will be new contracts and not provide credit for existing balances.

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